Millar, KennethBLUE CITY New York: Alfred A. Knopf,. 1947. Octavo,. cloth.. Previous owner&#39;s bookplate affixed to front paste-down. A near fine. copy in about near fine dust jacket with tiny closed tear at bottom. edge of front panel, touch of shelf wear to corners and spine ends. and mild tanning to spine and rear panels. (#129326). First edition. Millar&#39;s third novel, published under his own name, before his creation of Lew Archer and adoption of the Ross Macdonald pen name. "The texture of the world in this novel is reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett&#39;s fiction, though its sensibility and imagery show the influence of Raymond Chandler as well ... The mixture of Hammett&#39;s harsh world of political corruption and Chandler&#39;s sensual decadence are both apparent here." - Pederson (ed), The St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers (4th edition). Filmed in 1986 with Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and David Caruso. Hubin (1994), p. 573.

COLLINS, Cecil.The Vision of the Fool. London: The Grey Walls Press Ltd, 1947 - Tall octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Lightly rubbed at extremities, endpapers toned. An excellent copy in the rubbed and toned jacket with some small chips. 31 plates of which 2 are in colour. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Alex Comfort with best wishes from Elisabeth and Cecil Collins. September 19th, 1947. Cambridge". Comfort was a poet and novelist, physician, and the author of both the first monograph on Collins' artwork and the best-selling Joy of Sex. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

LARKIN, PhilipA Girl in Winter. A Novel London: Faber and Faber Ltd,, 1947. Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, titles to spine gilt. Bookseller&#39;s ticket to front pastedown causing faint offsetting to free endpaper. Very lightly rubbed at extremities, spine titles slightly dulled. An excellent copy in the rubbed, partially tanned, and nicked jacket with some small repairs to the edges and spine ends and tape repairs to the verso. First edition, first impression.

Nussbaum, ArthurA Concise History of the Law of Nations New York, Macmillan, 1947.. Octavo. Pp. xi, (iii), 361. Appendix, notes, index. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's light-blue cloth, spine lettered in white; a single corner-tip slightly bumped. In fine internal condition. Overall an excellent copy, bright interior. ~ First edition, first printing. Reprinted in 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962. ?The most elegant overview in the discipline of historiography.? - - The Peace Palace Library Centennial Exhibition: The Collection As a Mirror of the Historical Development of International Law (2005). Arthur Nussbaum (1877-1964), German legal scholar.

Duncan, RobertHeavenly City, Earthly City New York: The Gillick Press, 1947 - First edition of the author's first book, with a 2pp. holograph poem laid in, consisting of the first three sections of his long poem (pp. 5-9 in the book) "An Apollonian Elegy." First Edition. One of 250 copies (total edition 350). 8vo. With drawings by Mary Fabilli. White printed boards. Very good in dust jacket with slight wear at edges. Very scarce [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Rawlings, Marjorie KinnanThe Yearling Charles Scribner's Sons 1947 - Published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1947. SIGNED by the author on first front interior page. Early printing (1947), in black cloth binding and rare dj with Wyeth "Jody Finds the Fawn" illustration. Book very good, signed by previous owner on second front interior page, edgewear. DJ very good, chipping at spine ends and corners and edges, slight staining, DJ flap price crossed out. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

WILLIAMS, TENNESSEEA STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1947. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. NY: New Directions, [1947]. Tall 8vo., pictorial purple boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Williams and actress Jessica Tandy on the front endpaper. Only a mere 5,080 copies were printed. One of the most difficult, if not the most difficult and desirable, books to obtain in the Williams canon. Tandy portrayed Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production, also starring Marlon Brando, Kim Hinter and Karl Malden. Tandy garnered four Tony awards for her performance. Unquestionably one of the great masterpieces of modern American drama and the first play to win Williams a Pulitzer Prize. Near fine (few very tiny dings to upper & lower covers, little tanning to endpapers; text clean & tight); minor soil & few very short tears (little fading spine & small, light stain front cover; $2.75 price is present on the front flap) d/j. A nice copy!! $20,000.00.

WILLIAMS, TennesseeA Streetcar Named Desire New Directions, New York 1947 - First edition. Fine in a very good or better, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little edgewear and slight tanning to the spine. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot, basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. Ironically, Brando, in his signature performance, was the only one of the quartet who didn't win an Oscar. See this book in 3D on our site. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

WILLIAMS. TENNESSEEA STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE New Directions. New York. 1947. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9.3 x 6.3 inches). Neat previous owners name (New York, 1958) on the front free endpaper. Bump to the top of the spine and lower hinge and bottom outer corners but overall a bright and fresh copy in the publishers pink paper covered boards with black and white lettering and illustrations, by Lustig. Original near very good dustwrapper, which reproduces the designs and lettering on the boards, with the price ($2.75) still intact on the inner flap. Spine is a bit faded, although the lettering still very readable and there is some chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. One closed tear (about 1 inch long) without any loss to the top edge of the front panel. Overall a presentable copy of this classic American play.

WILLIAMS, TennesseeA Streetcar Named Desire New York: New Directions,, 1947. Octavo. Original purple boards decorated in white and black. With the dust jacket. Boards a little rubbed at the edges with a few minor bumps, spine and edges faded, wear to ends of spine, contents lightly tanned to margins, rear endpapers partially browned from inserted newspaper clipping. A very good copy in the price-clipped, rubbed, nicked, and tanned jacket with a few short closed tears and two chips from the lower panel. First edition, first printing.

ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris (AESOP)Aesop&#39;s Fables New York: Viking, 1947. Fifth. hardcover. very good. Artzybasheff, Boris. Edited and illustrated with 20 wood engravings by Boris Artzybasheff. 86pp. Thin 8vo, red cloth with paper labels on cover and spine (top of front cover slightly faded and with small white stain below label). New York: Viking Press, 1947. Fifth printing. A very good copy, with a full page original pen and ink drawing and 3 line presentation by the artist on the half-title.

Williams TennesseeA Streetcar Named Desire A New Directions Book, New York 1947 - 8vo. 171 pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and rubbed, lightly shaken, edges lightly rubbed. Dustjacket is in three pieces, separated at spine and front dj flap. Cover is bright and clean, tight. A first edition of the classic drama by Tennessee Williams. "Now, then, let me look at your. But don't you look at me, Stella, no,no,no, not till later, not till I've bathed and rested! And turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare! Come back here now! Oh, my baby! Stella! Stella for Star! I thought you would never come back to this horrible place!" [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Berkeley, Edmund CElectronic machinery for handling information, and its uses in insurance. Offprint 1947. <p>Berkeley, Edmund C. (1909-88). Electronic machinery for handling information, and its uses in insurance. Offprint from Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America 48 (1947). 36-52pp. 228 x 153 mm. Original printed wrappers, a few tiny spots, almost invisible staple-holes in front wrapper. Very good copy. Former owner&#146;s name-stamp (Clifford J. Maloney) on wrappers. </p><p>First Edition, Offprint Issue. The first published paper on the commercial application of electronic / electromechanical computing in private industry (outside of the telephone company). Drawing on material that he would later publish in his famous Giant Brains or Machines that Think (1949), Berkeley described the four large-scale computing machines then in operation&#151;MIT&#146;s Differential Analyzer; Harvard&#146;s Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator; the Moore School&#146;s ENIAC; and Bell Laboratories&#146; Relay Calculator&#151;and discussed the machines&#146; information-processing capabilities and their potential uses in the insurance industry. &#147;It is natural to call these machines mechanical or electronic brains and to speak of them as machinery that thinks. This new machinery is certain to have far-reaching effects in all fields where the handling of information is the bulk of the work. . . . Much of the material in this paper is taken from a forthcoming book on the subject by the present writer, and is used by special permission of the publisher&#148; (p. 36). </p><p>Berkeley, a seminal figure in the history of modern computing, was introduced to computing (using punched-card machine methods) while working as an actuary at Prudential Insurance. In 1942 he joined the Navy and was assigned to the Harvard Computation Laboratory, where he worked with Howard Aiken on the Harvard Mark II. In 1946 Berkeley returned to Prudential where he helped create a prototype premium billing trial for the Harvard Mark I and participated in studies that led to Prudential&#146;s purchase of one of the first UNIVAC I computers. He also began working on Giant Brains and in 1947 founded the Association for Computing Machinery. In 1948 he left Prudential to found his own company, and in 1951 he began editing and publishing Computers and Automation (later renamed Computers and People), the first periodical specifically devoted to computing. He also headed his own publishing firm, consulted for industry, and invented and sold several build-it-yourself electronic computers and small robots (Simon, Squee, Tyniac, Brainiac, etc.) as educational tools. In his later years he became known as the conscience of the computer industry through his often-expressed belief that computers should be used not for military or destructive purposes, but only for the benefit of society. </p>

O'Hara, John.HELLBOX. Random House (1947)., New York: - First edition. INSCRIBED, "To Bob Kriendler -- I'll write them as long as you collect them --- I hope. John O'Hara 11 July 1947." Kriendler was a U.S. Attorney in New York City, and perhaps related to the Kriendlers of the 21 Club. Fine in dust jacket with quarter-inch chip at top of spine (but otherwise near fine). [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

WILLIAMS, Tennessee[Typescript]: Summer and Smoke January 1947. Carbon typescript. Quarto. (4), 147, (1)pp. Sheets bradbound in the blue "Liebling-Wood" folder of Williams&#39;s agent, Audrey Wood. The light blue wrappers are moderately worn with wear to the extremities with tears and chips, the page ends are also worn, and the brads have pulled through the front wrap and part of the first page, about very good. The typescript for Williams&#39;s 1948 play about a refined minister&#39;s daughter from Glorious Hill, Mississippi, who falls for the unsophisticated young doctor who lives next door.This early version of the play, labeled "January 1947," is the one used during its first production in Dallas, Texas, in July 1947 by Margo Jones, before its New York debut in October of the following year. Though it ran for 102 weeks it was considered something of a disappointment as a follow-up to Williams&#39;s incredibly successful A Streetcar Named Desire" which immediately preceded it. The play was revived in 1952 off Broadway with a now legendary performance by Geraldine Page as Alva, and was later made into a 1962 film directed by Peter Glenville with Laurence Harvey, Rita Moreno, and Page, who received an Oscar nomination for best actress. .

Wilbur, Richard.The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York 1947 - First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth. Inscribed by the author, "The Beautiful changes as a forest is changes Richard Wilbur". Near fine in an excellent dust jacket that shows some light wear to the extremities. The American poet and literary translator Richard Wilbur twice won the 1957 and 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987. The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems is first novel which contribution to his first reception of the Pulitzer Prize. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Lorant, StefanAutograph Note Signed Lenox, [Mass.], oct. 13, 1947. 8-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches. Pen and ink on paper. Binding holes in left margin, else fine . "Your pictures were good seventeen years ago, the were excellent ten years ago and they are wonderful now. I hope we will be here in another ten, twenty and thirty years from now; you taking pictures, me admiring them and raving that they are magnificent, superb, unsurpassed, in short: not bad, not bad at all. "With best wishes "Stefan Lorant "Lenox, Oct. 13, 1947" Stefan Lorant (1901-1997) is widely acknowledged as a founder of modern pictorial journalism. Born into a family of studio photographers in Budapest, he pursued a career in silent-film making in Vienna and Berlin, then went on to both found and edit illustrated magazines in Germany, Hungary, and England. As editor of the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, Lorant transformed it into the first modern photojournalistic paper in Europe; his political commentaries after the Nazi putsch in 1933 enraged Hitler, who ordered him imprisoned. A year later, he was released through the intercession of the Hungarian government and began editing a paper in Budapest. Lorant wrote a memoir, I Was Hitler's Prisoner, and took the manuscript to London; it was published in 1935. Lorant became editor of Odham's Weekly Illustrated and then the influential British magazine Picture Post. "His innovative layouts, his 'exclusive' interviews and thirst for knowledge became a familiar part of millions of everyday lives, largely through his own creations, and in particular the legendary media icon Picture Post. His vision of photography as a documentary medium inspired Life and Look magazines in America" (biographer Michael Hallett). In 1940 he came to America where he wrote and edited pictorial history books, including the noted Lincoln: His Life in Photographs

(LEWIS, C. S.) JAMES, HenryThe Other House [New York:] New Directions,, 1947. With an Introduction by Leon Edel. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the supplied dust jacket. Spine faded, gilt titles dulled, white and black spots to upper board, faint spotting to endpapers and scattered through contents. A very good copy in the jacket with a small nick and short closed tear to the toned spine panel and an overprice stamp to the front flap. Originally published in 1896, this copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper with sixteen lines of notes by C. S. Lewis, who signs his name at the top of the page and then writes, "There are bits of dialogue in this so bad that it is hard to imagine a grown-up writing them&#133;". He goes on to quote and critique several passages from this work and also from Portrait of a Lady.

REUS, J.POSTER - Plaza de Toros de Vista-Alegre. - Bilbao 1947 - This is not a book but a wonderfully colourful ORIGINAL 1946 Spanish Bullfighting Poster. Measuring 107cm x 54cm, it is by J. Reus and it advertises a bullfighting event in Bilbao for 5 October 1947 starring the matadors Jose Gomez Gallito de Dos Hermanas, Manuel Franco Cardeno and Antonio Chaves Flores. The poster was printed by Ortega of Valencia and it bears the printer's name at the bottom and also the square stamp of authenticity to the lower right side with a print number of 1588. The brittle poster, whilst all original, has folds and creases, as well as light damage to the top edge. All of this could be rectified by a skilled archivist and, of course, the poster would be best conserved by professional linen-backing. We believe that few of these would have survived so long in anything approaching collectable condition, as they were meant to be pasted up on billboards. Our shop acquired this poster (one of a collection of 5) many years ago from a customer who used to live in Spain. We're now having a clear out of our basement and we have decided to put it on sale internationally. The poster will be sent, well packed, in a sturdy tube. Please note that by selling such a piece of original art, we do not necessarily approve of or support the sport of bullfighting.

Christie, AgathaThe Labours of Hercules The Crime Club, 1947 - Published in London by The Crime Club, 1947. First Edition (correct date on copyright page and no statement of later printing). Book very good, with minor edgewear, slight creasing and fading on spine. DJ (second state based on price and titles listed on flap) very good, slight chipping at spine ends and corners, slight wearing and creasing along top and bottom edges and joints. DJ price reads "4s. 6d.". [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

WILLIAMS, TennesseeA Streetcar Named Desire New Directions, NY 1947 - Previous owner's neat ownership stamp to ffep. The first edition of this book, bound in pink boards, printed in black and white. Book is stunning with no discernible flaws. The dustwrapper shows some yellowing to top edge of front panel and crinkling and minor closed tears to top of back panel. A beautiful copy of this book that is seldom encountered in this condition. The author's most desirable first edition. The $2.75 price on the bottom flap of the front d.w. is intact. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]